SDR Dongle with channel names and save to file on squelch break

[dimab]

What I'd like to do - using an Airspy Mini - monitor 6MHz or whatever bandwidth is available with an SDR piece of software, and record any individual transmission that breaks squelch within the receiving range to it's own individual file as an mp3, with appropriate alpha tags (that I define per freq), so that an app like Trunking Recorder can ingest it. I don't need this setup to scan through a predefined list of frequencies (my uniden scanner can do that), I want it parked on some segment of spectrum.

Ideally this runs on Windows, supports airspy or any rtl-sdr, performace not a concern.

Googling hasn't given me enough options to cobble together this functionality.

 

[dave3825]

There is something like that, but its Linux.

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[PDXh0b0]

Sdrtrunk can be setup to do that (not sure of the airspy mini bandwidth choices)

 

[dimab]

Sdrtrunk can be setup to do that (not sure of the airspy mini bandwidth choices)

i use sdrtrunk today, but I only see an option to assign a single dongle to a single freq. am I missing an option to assign it more than 1, with alpha tags (all within the dongle's receive range)?

so far the only way I've found is to create a new system for each individual freq. i want to monitor, even with 1 dongle. this could work, but seems like the wrong approach

 

[dave3825]

Sdrtrunk can be setup to do that (not sure of the airspy mini bandwidth choices)

Pretty sure each freq of interest would need to be set up in SDRT. I did that on one install for aircraft using hackrf

The Linux program looks like you just set hi and lo and it creates entries for what ever it sees in the range.

 

[dimab]

There is something like that, but its Linux.

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finally got this up and running. appreciate the suggestion, but it's pretty rough, and won't work for my use case.

 

[dave3825]

finally got this up and running.

What flavor of Linux? I briefly tried Ubuntu and had issues getting Docker to install.

 

[dimab]

What flavor of Linux? I briefly tried Ubuntu and had issues getting Docker to install.

pain in my side kind
ubuntu desktop 20.04 ARM 64bit (daily build) inside a Vmware VM. - plucky-desktop-arm64
it ran and worked, but the audio recording was bad, UI is impossible, and ultimately didn't do what I wanted.

 

[dimab]

SDR Console is another option. It can setup virtual receivers using the available bandwidth of 1 or many SDR receivers. It can record on squelch break, but cannot define custom naming scheme. Runs on Windows, lots of slick options.